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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1976
' Serving Brussels and the surrounding community.
Published each Wednesday afternoon at Brussels, Ontario
by McLean Bros. Publishers, Limited.
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Brussels Post
Plowing time again
Support your arena
If the donors who are c«ivassed next week show
`he same enthusiasm that Saturday's walkers did,
the new Brussels Morris and Grey arena is much
closer to its goal.
People of all ages, more than 200 of them, walked
for their new arena over the' 10 mile route, and they
raised about $8000.
They showed that they want the new recreation
facility•and that they're willing to put their actions
where their Words are.
We congratulate the walkers, the organizers of the
walkathon and the entire community. Brussels has
shown that everybody gets behind a project that is
really needed.
We hope people will read the brochure on the new
arena, inserted with this week's• Post. Look it over,
think about it. Weigh the arguments of the new
arena committee closely.
We think and we hope that you'll d
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generously when you are asked for your arena
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• Get involved in
YOUR village
I think there's something wrong with
Bob French's clock. It goes haywire every
Sunday. morning.
It seems to run okay on Saturday night.
That's the time Bob leaves his house,
crosses the road and goes up the stairs at
St. Peter's Lutheran Church. Then he pulls
the rope on the bells -- those bells named
Mary and Martha -- and he rings out a peal
of bells to announce the end of another
week. To proclaim the start of preparations
for Sunday worship.
MI of us in Brodhagen hear the bells. I
check my watch.. You're right on, Bob. It's
6 o'clock.
And it's the same way for all his other
bell ringing times -- weddings, funerals,
evening services. He's dead on. Bob's got
a perfect running clock.
But why does it always happen on
Sunday morning? Just when I step out my
door--to ma/d the three minute walk up the
hill to church -- .Boh starts ringing the
You'd think he could wait until I got half
way up the hill. Or inside the church' door.
But no, Bob insists on ringing his bells just
when I get on my front step.
It's awfully embarrassing. Coming into
church and meeting the choir in the
hallway -- just as they're ready to march.
(limn the aisle.
Of course, that way you can shake hands
and say "Good Morning" to some of the
members before church instead of of ter.
That's even better than the preacher can
manage.
And if Bob's clock is really off, then I
arrive when everyone's singing the second
verse of the first hymn. My wife starts
acting up: She insists she wants to sit in the
back row arid I whisper we have to go up
front.
I have to practice what I preach-, don't I?
None of this huddling way in the back
pews. Go right on • Up frOnt. Be a
participant, not an observer.
"And let everyone know we're late?"'
she gasps.
I take a grit grip on her arm and usher
her doWn toward a front peW.
Mervin Dietz leans over and breathes, "I
guess you'll have to Set your alarm a little
earlier."
• He smiles and I smile, but it's not all
smiles„.I ye had an algrrri systeili going
since 10:30 that morning.
"We're going, to be on time this
morning," my wife announces.
You've got to understand, Bob, your
off-clock timing is turning my mild
mannered wife into a shrew.
"Everyone on the double," she
declares.
Ten minutes later she yells,
"Countdown—you now have exactly 15
minut es to go."
I start to take her seriously. Shave. Get
my sox. Tie.
The shoes need a polish. The coat a
brushing off.
"Ten minutes."
Brush my teeth. Comb my hair. Try to
find that book I can't lay my hand on.
"None of that," she warns, "Get
ready".
Shedohor.as her coat on and she's standing at the
"Five minutes."
Boy, wouldn't a cup of coffee taste good
right now? Been up since seven. And I've
got to stay awake. Can't insult the preacher
with droopy eyelids. And with me sitting
right up front and all.
Ip,Tuwt
"Two minutes."
kettle on. Only take a minute. ,
Why doesn't that kettle boil? What we
need in this house is an electric kettle.
"One minute'.
I'm not making this cup of hot coffee for
nothing! I'm drinking it. All it needs is a
little cold water to cool it down.
I
need:
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says so. So do my two ticking gingerbread
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"I'm going," she says
I put the empty cup in the sink. Check
the lightS, The stove. The water taps
Everything's off.
Ready. I'M coming , Wife. I'm cornitigf
Bob.
And then you do it, Bob.
You ring those bells and I've just,
touched the first step on my front porch'
Bob, fOr heaven's sake, will you get your
watch. fixed: SO you can get me to the
church On tithe?
.Amen
by Karl Schuessler
Bobs French's clock
It's your election
Are you running for council in the December 6
municipal elections?
If you are like those who are already on council*,
you're still undecided.
But time is getting short. There is little more than
a week now until the Brussels ratepayers' meeting
on November .10 when most councillors say they'll
announce their plans.. Nominations close on
November 15.
We hope that many who have not yet been
involved with local goverrfment in Brussels wil
consider making a run for council or the PUC this
year. There are many talented people in our village
who could add to the contribution that many veterans
have made over the years.
Are you one of those who is unhappy with
decisions of the present council? Or do you think
they've done a fine job but you'd like to give some of
them a break by shouldering the burden of municipal
office for awhile.
Whether you fit either of these categories, or lie
somewhere in between, Brussels needs your
contribution. Think seriously about the type of
leadership Brussels should have. .
What would you like to see in our village in the
future?
Even if you don't feel you can run for council, and
it is certainly a heavy job, attend the ratepayers'
meeting and give your support to those who are
running.
Brussels is only as strong as its local gaovernment.
And good local government benefit's from a lively
and interesting election campaign.
Be at the ratepayers' meeting in the library
November 10 to give it a good start.